Marty Robbins - Feleena (From El Paso) Stereo 1966 HQV

In 1966, Robbins recorded “Feleena (From El Paso)“, telling the life story of Feleena, the “Mexican girl“ from “El Paso“, in a third-person narrative. This track was over eight minutes long. Robbins wrote most of it in Phoenix, Arizona, but went to El Paso seeking inspiration for the conclusion. Born in a desert shack in New Mexico during a thunderstorm, Feleena runs away from home at 17, living off her charms for a year in Santa Fe, before moving to the brighter lights of El Paso to become a paid dancer. After another year, the narrator of “El Paso“ arrives, the first man she did not have contempt for. He spends six weeks romancing her, before shooting another man with whom she was flirting through “insane jealousy“ in a retelling of the key moment in the original song. Her lover’s return to El Paso comes only a day after his flight (the original song suggests a longer timeframe before his return) and as she goes to run to him, the cowboy motions to her to stay out of the line of fire and is shot; immediatel